Fox Kits — Giclée on Paper Print Size:12" x 11.5" and distant blue hills is

and distant blue hills is one of the most satisfying compositional structures in Ontario landscape

The original watercolour study

combining his greatest strengths as both landscape and wildlife painter

Glen found the comedy in this moment without letting it slip into sentimentality

and rufous in the body feathers requires a controlled approach to colour mixing that Glen achieved through layered transparent washes

Fox Kits — Giclée on Paper Print Size:12" x 11.5" and distant blue hills isThree red fox kits at the den entrance one standing alert on a pine cone strewn slope, two others resting close together, all three orientated in slightly different directions with the alert, radar eared attention of young predators learning to pay attention. Dandelions bloom in the surrounding grass; a pine branch arches overhead. This 1985 watercolour is among Glen's finest young animal compositions: the kits' proportions are exactly right, the den